Undungeon Review (Xbox Series S)

by Jim Smale · December 7, 2021

Our Undungeon Review takes on this gorgeous Action/RPG driven by intense real-time combat and an immensely rich science fiction story. Travel between dimensions and change the world around you in an attempt to reconstruct the shattered Multiverse.

Undungeon Review Pros:

Decent graphics.
6.6GB download size.
1000 Gamerscore.
Tutorial tips can be turned on and off. There is a tutorial area to learn but again is optional.
Hack and slash combat.
Weapons and items have durability and break.
Auto pause kicks in at crucial points.
Health – you release the potion that flies out and then you hit it, whoever hits it first gets it whether it is you or the enemies.
Essence falls from enemies and is used to power up your cores.
Buffs can be had by throwing the potion and hitting it just like health potions.
You have a dash and block defense.
Barter trading system for buying and selling items from vendors.
Overmap where you can set a destination and watch yourself travel to New areas.
Mirrors act as a respawn point.
Loot drops from enemies and the environment.
The day and night cycle happens as the days pass when navigating on the big over the map.
Communicator device stores all quests, info, and tutorials.
Karma plays a big part in the game and all actions give karma good or bad. Karma affects prices, hostility, and the way the game progresses.
Level up with shards to unlock more slots to fit spheres that add to your stats and abilities.
The overmap uncovers as you move around.

Undungeon Review Cons:

Really convoluted tutorial system, you are never sure what’s going on.
Slow starter.
You never feel like you know what is happening and why.
The combat is basic.
The areas on the map are small.
A lot of text with a very small font was used.
No voice work so a lot of reading is required.
Loads of loading screens that require a button press to exit.
To leave an area you always have to go to a specific part.
The menus are clunky especially the upgrade/level up menu.
It gives you information and quests like you know what to do.

Undungeon:

Official website.

Developer: Laughing Machines

Publisher: Tinybuild

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Xbox

8/10
Graphics - 8/10
7/10
Sound - 7/10
7/10
Accessibility - 7/10
8/10
Length - 8/10
7/10
Fun Factor - 7/10

7.4/10

Summary

Undungeon is a complicated game, it gives the impression of freedom and looting but in actuality, it’s a game full of text, confusing menus, and slow tedious gameplay. You go from area to area (which themselves are small) and do a particular task and then go on to the next, it all sounds simple and it is but it’s the boring combat, tedious fighting, and general slugginess that takes the biscuit. Yes, it has loot but not in the Diablo sense more of the crafting materials sense, you can acquire spheres and runes to attach to yourself to adjust stats and abilities so it does the whole RPG thing. But if the gameplay is tedious and kinda sterile what’s the point in caring about the upgrades and unlocks, sure they look cool when executed but by the time you get to that point you are so over it all that it does little for you. At times it felt like they wanted as many systems in play at one and to be honest that’s how it feels and there is just no cohesion or atmosphere to it. I could go on but you get the point, Undungeon is not a great example of the genre and one that infuriates rather than entertain.